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Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics
Shortlisted for the ESSE 2022 Book Awards Shortlisted for the 2022
SAES / AFEA Research Prize Building on an upsurge of interest in
the Americanisation of British novels triggered by the Harry Potter
series, this book explores the various ways that British novels,
from children's fiction to travelogues and Book Prize winners, have
been adapted and rewritten for the US market. Drawing on a vast
corpus of over 80 works and integrating the latest research in
multimodality and stylistics, Linda Pilliere analyses the
modifications introduced to make British English texts more
culturally acceptable and accessible to the American English
reader. From paratextual differences in cover, illustrations,
typeface and footnotes to dialectal changes to lexis, tense, syntax
and punctuation, Pilliere explores the sociocultural and
ideological pressures involved in intralingual translation and
shows how the stylistic effects of such changes - including loss of
meaning, voice, rhythm and word play - often result in a more muted
American edition. In doing so, she reveals how homing in on
numerous small adjustments can provide fascinating insights into
the American publishing process and readership.
Today's reading standards require K-12 teachers to teach
multi-modal texts that combine print and images. Teaching Reading
Comprehension with Graphic Texts: An Illustrated Adventure shows
teachers how to read, understand, and teach the unique vocabulary
and anatomy of the graphic text format alongside traditional,
print-based literature and content-area selections. Make the most
of the graphic text-driven format in your reading program with this
engaging and innovative professional resource from Dr. Katie
Monnin.
During several decades, syntactic reconstruction has been more or
less regarded as a bootless and an unsuccessful venture, not least
due to the heavy criticism in the 1970s from scholars like Watkins,
Jeffers, Lightfoot, etc. This fallacious view culminated in
Lightfoot's (2002: 625) conclusion: "[i]f somebody thinks that they
can reconstruct grammars more successfully and in more widespread
fashion, let them tell us their methods and show us their results.
Then we'll eat the pudding." This volume provides methods for the
identification of i) cognates in syntax, and ii) the directionality
of syntactic change, showcasing the results in the introduction and
eight articles. These examples are offered as both tastier and also
more nourishing than the pudding Lightfoot had in mind when
discarding the viability of reconstructing syntax.
In 1903, W. E. B. Du Bois wrote about the Talented Tenth in an
influential essay of the same name. The concept exalted
college-educated Blacks who Du Bois believed could provide the race
with the guidance it needed to surmount slavery, segregation, and
oppression in America. Although Du Bois eventually reassessed this
idea, the rhetoric of the Talented Tenth resonated, still holding
sway over a hundred years later. In Rethinking Racial Uplift:
Rhetorics of Black Unity and Disunity in the Obama Era, author
Nigel I. Malcolm asserts that in the post-civil rights era, racial
uplift has been redefined not as Black public intellectuals lifting
the masses but as individuals securing advantage for themselves and
their children. Malcolm examines six best-selling books published
during Obama's presidency-including Randall Kennedy's Sellout, Bill
Cosby's and Alvin Poussaint's Come on People, and Ta-Nehisi
Coates's Between the World and Me-and critically analyzes their
rhetorics on Black unity, disunity, and the so-called "postracial"
era. Based on these writings and the work of political and social
scientists, Malcolm shows that a large, often-ignored, percentage
of Blacks no longer see their fate as connected with that of other
African Americans. While many Black intellectuals and activists
seek to provide a justification for Black solidarity, not all
agree. In Rethinking Racial Uplift, Malcolm takes contemporary
Black public intellectual discourse seriously and shows that
disunity among Blacks, a previously ignored topic, is worth
exploring.
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